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Favourite RPG aliens?

Started by Anthrobot, February 08, 2007, 06:32:37 AM

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Silverlion

#15
February 08, 2007, 06:48:49 PM
Star Frontiers: Vrusks
Alternity: Fraal
Starcluster: SaHu (since they're still "humanish")
Traveller: Aslan
Other Suns: Er...I admit to playing it but can't remember any aliens.
Star Wars: Wookies or Rodians...
Star Ace: The Polar Bears of course. (Kleibor?)
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Star Trek: Gorn
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beeber

#16
February 08, 2007, 07:41:27 PM
'nother dralasite & aslan fan, here

droog

#17
February 08, 2007, 07:51:57 PM
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!Hivers, from the Official Traveller Universe.  They're charmingly weird.

Close second wouldbe the K'Kree, also from Trav, because they're the snooty, smelly bastards that you love to hate.  I wonder if they taste good...
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#18
February 08, 2007, 08:28:14 PM
From Alternity, I've always been partial to the Weren. There was a neat article about them in Dragon that really made them even more interesting. Anyway, I like the Weren for the same reason I like Kzinti - tough, battle-driven, and all-around cool warrior race.
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#19
February 08, 2007, 08:58:56 PM
Kafer again, the idea of a race that responds to fear, hunger or danger by getting smarter, and has a society in which the intelligent rule, is just too damn attractive to me.

I also like the Hivers from traveller, which I think no one has mentioned yet.

The kzinti, if portrayed as having their sense of honor and culture, are more than just snarling "beastmen' and worth respecting.
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#20
February 08, 2007, 09:12:23 PM
Kobolds. Sometimes the alien is what lives up in the hills.
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el diablo robotico

#21
February 08, 2007, 09:14:54 PM
I'm partial to Sesheyans myself (from Alternity). Here's a sketch of the Sesheyan I played a while back (his name was Gloam):



I too, like Dralasites. Here's a sketch of a pregen PC I made for a Star Frontiers one-shot I ran (named Pholox):

 

Blackleaf

#22
February 08, 2007, 09:23:23 PM
@el diablo robotico: el drawring fantastico!

Favourite RPG alien?  Zentraedi. :cool:

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#23
February 08, 2007, 11:18:49 PM
Quote from: Stuart@el diablo robotico: el drawring fantastico!
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#24
February 09, 2007, 12:29:04 AM
Danka! er.. I mean, Gracias!
 

Pierce Inverarity

#25
February 09, 2007, 12:34:37 AM
I want to say Z'Bri, but alas, even though they're so alien, they're not really aliens.

So, Hivers.
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Balbinus

#26
February 09, 2007, 08:49:35 AM
Anything from 2300AD, the home of interesting aliens.

Hivers and K'Kree.

There is a lot of agreement in this thread it seems.

Aegypto

#27
February 09, 2007, 09:08:33 AM
The Fungi from Yuggoth, hands down.

I also rather like the Aborigines in Blue Planet - a great example of sentient aliens who manage to be somewhat plausible, integrated in their own ecology and not being anything like humans.

In the category of people in funny suits, I have a soft spot for Sullustans.
 

C.W.Richeson

#28
February 09, 2007, 05:13:56 PM
Quote from: el diablo roboticoI'm partial to Sesheyans myself (from Alternity).

I liked them quite a bit too, just a really neat species that was pleasantly further away from being human than most aliens are.
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#29
February 09, 2007, 05:20:45 PM
Oh man, how could I forget the Sathars?! 'Bout as good a bad guy alien race as you could get!

(from the same one-shot as the Dralasite sketch, here's a drarwring I did of a Sathar [sorry for showing off])

 
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